53rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment

The 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was a Union Army regiment which was active from August 1861 to 30 June 1865 during the American Civil War. It was organized at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania with John R. Brooke as its colonel, and it was attached to the Army of the Potomac during the war, first fighting at the Battle of Yorktown in 1862 and ending the war at Appomattox in April 1865.